Pamela J. Shoemaker

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Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits

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via nytimes.com Take a look at the article on how people learn. Psychologists have found that studying the same material in two different locations (e.g., inside, outside) increases retention of information compared with studying material twice in the same location...

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Pamela Shoemaker

Pamela Shoemaker

I'm a Mass Comm Scholar. What about you?

I hold an endowed research chair at Syracuse University and am the John Ben Snow Professor, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse NY, USA, 1-315-443-9255. I teach research methods & theory. I study influences on media content, gatekeeping, cross-cultural news and news values, definitions of newsworthiness, news on multiple platforms.

My recent books include:
-- Gatekeeping Theory (with Tim Vos)
-- News Around the World (with Akiba Cohen)
-- How to Build Social Science Theory (with Jim Tankard and Nick Lasorsa)
-- Mediating the Message (with Steve Reese); 3rd edition under way

please feel free to comment here and to email me at snowshoe@syr.edu. thanks, pam

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